FATHER DIVINE
Shortly after several testimonies from those of the visiting friends and followers alike, FATHER arose to deliver this apparently brief but timely sermon, well worth the consideration of one and all.
One of the visiting guests persistently kept referring to FATHER'S Glorious Work and Mission as being that of the accomplishment of a 'good m-a-n' and of 'one sent from GOD'; and this Sermon proves Scripturally beyond a shadow of a doubt that GOD is real, tangible and practical and a living factor here on earth, yet ever present the universe over!
Thank YOU, Omnipotent Savior, for Thy Glorious Condescension!
(The foregoing statements are those of the transcriber, after which FATHER
Speaks as follows:)
PEACE, EVERYONE: How good it is for brethren to well together in Unity! By the Unity of the Spirit, of Mind, of Aim and of Purpose and by some among you following Peace and Holiness with all men, you have actually seen and know the LORD!
'No man can say that JESUS is LORD except by the Holy Ghost!'
and
'No man knoweth the FATHER but the Son and no man knoweth the Son saving the FATHER, saving him whom the Son will reveal Him!'
For this cause you may rejoice and be glad for there are many among you that
have actually been born of GOD!
For this cause we do rejoice and we are glad, even though in the experience of Nicodemus when he thought JESUS was a good man and no man could do those miracles that He did except GOD be with Him, he thought to the best of his ability because he had not been converted; that was the mystery! That is why I told Nicodemus,
'Ye must be born again!'
There is a deeper birth for everyone who is not born into the recognition and
the realization to know that FATHER DIVINE is GOD! Nicodemus thought,
'Now, how can a man be born when he is old?'
Many of whom and with whom you have come in contact, no doubt, have thought within
themselves, 'How can I be born? I have been converted; I have had the Holy Ghost
so many years; and FATHER DIVINE does not look like GOD!' How does HE look? How
does GOD look? It is Wonderful!
At one time one writer declared,
'No man has seen GOD at any time! The Only Begotten of the FATHER, He had declared HIM!'
Right along from thence, you go back and say,
'The Word was made Flesh and dwelt among us and we beheld HIS Glory as that of the Only Begotten of the FATHER, full of Grace and of Truth!'
Then you have a hope in you -- for whatsoever you have visioned in him, it is
your privilege to reproduce and bring to fruition -- for he did say,
'And of all of HIS fullness have all we received, Grace for Grace!'
For this cause rejoice and be glad; and remember, GOD in the midst of you is
mighty to save!
I will not further comment, for I have long since declared by a revelationic declaration and yet by a motto and a message to the world at large,
'I will preach CHRIST in Words but more so in Deeds and in Actions. I will put MY Spirit in the people and I will cause them to walk in MY Statutes!'
By this we shall have a Righteous Government, for I shall fill the earth and
the heaven with MY name! Aren't you glad! I will put my spirit in the masses
-- all of those of whom shall live -- and I will cause them to walk in my statutes;
and all will think and be just as we, with peace on earth, good will toward men,
and all success and all prosperity, and mastering the economic situation and
solving every problem and adjusting matters satisfactorily for them! These and
all other Blessings I will do for others even as I have for you, as they allow
ME to! I thank you!
New Day: August 23, 1947 A.D.F.D. Pg 13
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